El Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:58:06PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia: > > ... and that's where things like the TI SoCs and the Samsung Exynos > SoCs fall down. you simply *cannot* undo a blown e-fuse: that's the > whole point. > > which is why if you were to ship a processor that *didn't* have its > "secure e-fuse" blown, you're actually selling people a ticking > time-bomb where the possibility exists for someone to hack in to your > computer, install some spyware at the bootloader level, blow the > e-fuse and then you're *really* screwed. a whole new ransomware > vector at the *hardware* level. dang. > > which is why i contacted TI to ask them if there was a way to blow > the e-fuses so that DRM could ****NEVER**** be enabled. they were > incredibly surprised: i was literally the first person ever to ask > them. > > oh... the answer was "no". >
I didn't know that. Does this affect all TI SoCs or only some or you just checked the one you were evaluating ? Do you have a link to the docs ? Thank you. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
